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The Grill: Sridhar Vembu

This cloud pioneer debunks the myths of traditional education.

Career Watch: How women can get ahead

First Person: Padmasree Warrior

Women in IT: The long climb to the top

Despite unequal pay and cultural biases, more women are reaching the IT executive suite than ever before

Tech’s most notorious CEO scandals

Ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd latest in long line of tech chiefs forced to resign

Inside Chiquita’s ‘painful’ finance system overhaul

The inside story of a problem-plagued financial system overhaul that just might work.

iPad halo effect brightens iPhone prospects

Tablet owners who don't own an iPhone twice as likely to want one, says Nielsen

AT&T: Loss of iPhone exclusivity won’t have material effect

In a filing with the SEC, AT&T says the end of the deal could increase churn and slow customer acquisition

HP could make mark in mobile technologies with next CEO

But HP's portfolio maybe too diverse to focus heavily on mobile

Google-Verizon net neutrality plan raises more questions than it answers

Google-Verizon Policy outline leaves many blanks to be filled

HP’s bug bounty program changes disclosure terms

Vendors not fixing zero-day vulnerabilities fast enough, HP says

MTV gets its first Twitter Deejay

Looks like Video Deejays are as 80s as shoulder pads, big hair and a Commodore 64

Topix to stop charging for fast review of troll complaints

The news and discussion website enters into an agreement with 34 state attorneys general

Skype worries about iPhone, attracting business customers

Skype reveals some of its business worries in SEC filing

Skype’s SEC filing reveals huge revenue swings

Skype has trouble accurately counting users, calls made

Amdocs defects slow billing rollout, Clearwire says

The WiMax carrier says its billing and customer care deployment is delayed into next year

Inside American Eagle Outfitter’s 8-Day Website Nightmare

Qualcomm to ship fastest chip for phones, tablets in Q4

Qualcomm will ship its dual-core Snapdragon QSD8672 for tablets and low-cost laptops

Court rejects warrantless GPS tracking

Extended GPS tracking without warrant found by U.S. Court of Appeals to be a violation of Fourth Amendment rights

Mobile tech IQ test

Global Brands Snap Up .co Domain Names

IBM, Gartner in blog tiff over Notes report

Gartner oversells interest in migrating from Lotus Notes and Domino, according to IBM

File-sharing Web site claims to ‘buy’ desolate Russian town

Torrentreactor.net hopes Moscow will give the green light to rename the Siberian town after the Web site

Hurd’s career at HP gets a tabloid finish

Actress and business exec Jodie Fisher ID'd as person behind complaint against former CEO

Skype files IPO registration with SEC

The Internet communications company plans to raise $100 million

Five reasons HP’s Mark Hurd resigned

FTC halts domain-name registration scam

A U.S. judge orders Canadian operation to stop sending false invoices to small businesses and other organizations

Tire tags reveal driver whereabouts

Apple takes orders for pricey Mac Pros

Top-end model can cost more than $17K with all the options

Riverbed readies cloud, mobility and virtualization rollout

Riverbed roadmap seeks to exploit popularity of cloud computing. virtualization

Apple’s head of iPhone engineering out after ‘Antennagate’

But analyst argues that Mark Papermaster's departure may be due to culture shock

Saudi Arabia puts pressure on RIM with renewed threat of ban

A BlackBerry services ban, originally set for Friday, will now come into force Monday if there is no solution to the dispute

Mark Hurd’s career at HP meets an unlikely end

The former CEO avoided attention; he was all about operations, though he could be tough

SAP admission of liability highlights Oracle third-party support issues

Oracle/Rimini Street lawsuit will be a real test of legality of third-party services

Microsoft probes new Windows kernel bug

Investigates Israeli researcher's vulnerability disclosure

RIM may have cut deal with Saudi Arabia, say reports

Saudi Arabia did not go ahead with threat to cut BlackBerry services on Friday

Smartphone wave challenges enterprise security

Question: Let personal iPhone and Android mobile devices in or not?

More than 1 in 10 Mozilla bug finders turn down cash

Mozilla's security bug bounty program has uncovered 120 vulnerabilities since 2004

RIM bumps into the politics of global business

Disputes in the Middle East and elsewhere are a cost of running a global service

Senate raises H-1B fees to fund border security

$2,000 H-1B fee increase hits any firm with 50% of employees on the visa

Ericsson objects to new Indian telecom rules

Equipment vendors are reluctant to share source code and designs with the government

Lebanon also investigates BlackBerry services

The country’s regulator says it will eventually target all encrypted services

IPad knockoffs on sale for $50 to $125

IPad replicas with the Android OS are on sale on eBay at cheap prices, but lack technical support

Google confirms Slide acquisition

The acquisition will further its goal of making its services socially aware, Google said

The current state of net neutrality is… who knows?

FCC could be back at square one

Mozilla plans to silently update Firefox

Joins Google, Adobe in auto-update movement to take patching out of users' hands

Google: 129 million different books have been published

HP’s Mark Hurd resigns amid sexual harrassment investigation

CFO Lesjak takes over as interim CEO in wake of Hurd scandal

Microsoft to thank Google researcher for privately reporting Windows bugs

Tavis Ormandy, who kicked off bug reporting debate, to get credit for reporting four flaws

Indian IT group says H-1B fee hike will hurt U.S. hiring

NASSCOM warns of protectionism, trade challenges and job losses